Electronics Computer-Aided Design Pcad version incompatibility?

Bookmark this page:  YahooMyWeb Yahoo!  Google Google  Windows Live Favorites Windows Live  del.icio.us del.icio.us  digg digg  Add to Netscape Netscape
Subject Author Date
Pcad version incompatibility? Noway2 07-23-08
Posted by Noway2 on July 23, 2008, 12:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options
Here is a question for all the pcad users out there. Now that that
Altium has officially burried the product along with the knowledge
base, it looks like were on our own.

Recently we made changes to a PCB using Pcad 2002. When the board is
viewed with the viewer tool (2006 edition) which is basically a
watered down edition of PCB, several nets show up as unmade
connections with the little blue lines showing. Attempting to
"reconnect nets" does not solve the problem. Clearly this is another
one of those bugs associated with pcad's finicky nature of traces and
exact connection points.

The concern is that there are some connection errors, identified by
the viewer and aren't picked up by a DRC in the 2002 version. While
unlikely, we feel it is prudent to spend some effort to discern the
real cause of the problem.

Is anybody aware of any compatibility issues between the 2002 and 2006
versions, especially with regards to the PCB files and the netlist
connections?


Similar ThreadsPosted
Pcad version incompatibility? July 23, 2008, 12:01 pm
Converting Eagle scripts between version 4.16 and version 4.09 March 19, 2008, 6:21 am
BOM creation in PCAD March 23, 2005, 4:25 pm
pcad question December 16, 2007, 8:16 am
How to print PCAD 2000 ? January 24, 2005, 2:26 am
How to convert from PCAD to CADSTAR May 25, 2005, 2:12 am
PCAD schematic question December 13, 2007, 1:58 pm
Conversion service for Omation SCHEMA III schematics to Altium PCAD & Designer February 20, 2007, 3:15 pm
ANN: Pulsonix Version 3.1 available September 8, 2004, 9:12 am
ANN: gerber2pdf.py - Version 1.4 November 1, 2004, 1:21 am
Multisim version 9 December 1, 2006, 8:07 pm
New version of Eagle April 10, 2008, 7:05 am
Easy-PC version 8 has no 8051, Anybody got one? December 15, 2004, 4:46 pm
Easy-PC version 8 has no 8051, Anybody got one? December 16, 2004, 10:37 am
Student Version of Spice 9.1 March 31, 2005, 11:36 pm